He'li, or rather Ei.i ('HAi, in some ed. 'HXi or 'HXt'i, Ik'b. "'hv, Eli), a name that occurs once in the N. T. and once in the Apocrj'pha.
1. The third of three names inserted between Achitob and Amarias in tlie genealogy of Ezra, in 2 Esd. i, 2, for which there is no corresponding name in the Ileb. list (Ezra vii, "2, 3).
2. The father-in-law of Joseph, and maternal grand- father of Clirist (Luke iii, 23). B.C. ante 22. Sec Gen- ealogy OF Jesus Christ.
Heli'as, the Latin form (2 Esd. vii, 39) of the name of the propliet Elijah.
Helioddvus ('HsXKk'wpoc, i. ^- fj\ft of the sun, a not unfrequent Greek name), the treasurer (u tvi tCov Tzpajf.iuTUJv) of Seleucus Philopator, who was commis- sioned by the king, at the instigation of ApoUonius (q. v.), to carry away the private treasures deposited in tlia Temple at Jerusalem. According to the narrative in 2 IVLacc. iii, 9 sq., he was stayed from the execution of his design by a "great apparition" (tTrt^avtia), in conse- quence of which he fell down " compassed with great darkness," and speechless. He was afterwards restored at the intercession of the high-priest Onias, and bore witness to the king of the inviolable majesty of the Tcmjile (2 IMacc. iii). The full details of the narrative are not supported by any other evidence. Josephus, who Avas unacquainted with 2 jVIacc, takes no notice of it (.1 nt. xii, 3, 3) ; and the author of the so-called iv Jlace. attributes the attempt to plunder the Temple to ApoUonius, and differs in his account of the miraculous interposition, though he distinctly recognises it {De Mace. 4 ovpavuOti' ttpnrirot iri^mv^avijaav dyytXoi . . . KciTaTviiyijjv St r'li-uOavijg 6 'ATroWwinog . . .). Heli- odorus afterwards murdered Seleucus, and made an un- successful attempt to seize the Syrian crown (App. S/j?: 45). B.C. 175. Comp. Wernsdorf, De Jide Lib): Mace. § liv. Raffaelle's grand picture of "Heliodorus" has often been copied and engraved. — Smith, s. v.
Heliodorus of Ejiesa, in Sj'ria, flourished in the latter part of the 4th centurj- after Christ. He was the author of the celebrated romance entitled yEthiopica, or account of the love and adventures of Theogeiies and Chariclea, the oldest and best of the Greek romances, and tlie model of many subsecpient ones. This was written in early life, and aftenvards Heliodorus became a Chris- tian, and was made bishop of Tricca, in Sicily, where he introduced the regulation that every married priest should, upon his ordination, separate from his wife or be deposed (Socrates, Hist. JCccles. v. 22). Niceiihorus states (tlist. Eeeles. xii, 34) that a provincial synod, because of tlie injurious tendency of the .Et/iiopica upon the minds of the young, decreed that Heliodorus should either con- demn and disown it, or resign his bishopric. This state- ment is generally rejected as improbable, since it is made by no other author, and tlie yEihiopica contains nothing of a corruptive tendency. The best edition of the Greek text is that by Coraes (Paris, 1804, 2 vols. 8vo).— Smith, Diet. Grlc. and Rom. Biof/. and Mifthology, ii, 373 ; Dun- lop, Hist, of Fiction (London, 1845, 1 vol. 8vo),p. 18-24; I'liotius, Cod. 73 ; Herzog, Real-Enci/Hojmdie, v, {599. (J. W. SL)
Heliogabalus (Elagabalus), emperor of Rome, was liorn at Emesa about A.D. 205. His name was Va- rus A\itus Bassianus, but he was made priest of Elaga- balus (El-Gabal), the Syro-Phoenician Sun-god, about A.D. 217, and took that name. In ]May, 218, through the intrigues of his mother, Julia Moesa, with the sol- diery, he was proclaimed emperor ; and, soon after, JMa- crinus, who was marching to put down this usurpation, was defeated. His reign, which lasted not quite four years, was characterized by superstition, licentiousness, and cruelty to a degree hardly rivalled by the worst Koman emperors. He introduced the worship of the Sun-god into Home, and even passed a decree that no
other celestial power should be worshipped. The prae- torians slew him in camp, A.D. 222. As he himself in- troduced a new religion into Pome, it was not his policy to persecute, and so, during that time, the Christians had " rest."
Hel'kai (Heb. Chdhnf, ^'i^hn, for r\^phr\,J,h„nih is his jwrlion; Sept. 'EXkch), sou of IMeraio'tli, and one of the chief priests in the time of the high-priest Joia- kim (Neh. xii, 15). B.C. post 530.
Hel'kath (Heb. Chelkath', rp^n, Josh, xix, 25, but f^i^f J^i '^"^■t^"" without pause-accent, Josh. xxi,31 ; "con- struct" of Hi^Pn, smoothness, as in Gen. xxvii, IG, or por- tion, as in Gen. xxxiii, 19, etc. ; Sept. XeXKaSr), a town of Asher, on the eastern border, mentioned as the start- ing-point in the direction (apparently southward) to Achshaph (Josh, xix, 25) ; assigned as one of the Lc- vitical cities (Josh. xxi,31). In 1 Chron. vi, 75, it ap- pears to be erroneously written Hukok. See Hukkok. In tlie Onomasticon it is simply mentioned by Eusebius as 'EBdrj, by Jerome as Elcath; but neither seems to have known it. De Saulcy inclmes to identify it with a village caUed A'i/i-f^, which he reports not far south- east of Akka {Narratiee, i, 68) ; and Schwarz {Pakstinc, p. 191) thinks it is the modern Yei-ka, about seven miles north-east of Akka; but neither of these positions is in the neighborhood indicated by the text, which rather requires a locality nearer the north-eastern angle of the tribe, not unlikely at the ruined village Ukrith, about twelve miles S.E. of Tyre, as ])roposed by Van de Velde (MeiJioir, p. 320). See Helkath-hazzurim.